insert_link World China’s Xi to send top-level envoy to Trump’s inauguration Chinese President Xi Jinping will send a high-level envoy in his place to US President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, according to the Financial Times newspaper. Trump had extended the invitation to Xi, but experts said it would have been unprecedented for a leader of China to attend a US presidential inauguration and called it political theater. Laura Westbrook reports. todayJanuary 10, 2025 18
insert_link World China live-fire drills in Taiwan Strait after US and Canadian warships transit China said it would carry out live-fire drills in the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, two days after US and Canadian warships sailed through the contentious waterway following Beijing's massive military exercise a week ago. Laura Westbrook reports from Hong Kong. todayOctober 22, 2024 33